SURV205 Statutory Planning A

An introduction to statutory planning, the purpose and functions of the Resource Management
Act 1991, including sustainability, local authority planning documents, stakeholder
consultation, notification, effects, examples of assessments of environmental effects
and resource consent applications.

Dealing with the planning system in New Zealand forms a significant part of the practising
surveyor's daily business. The system is evolutionary and sometimes undergoes radical
change, is changed in minor ways at other times and occasionally reintroduces matters
that have been deleted by previous amendments. For this reason it is critical that
students understand the way in which the New Zealand system has developed, the reasons
for changes, what is new and what has been used before. This paper sets in place a
knowledge of the fundamental aspects of the New Zealand planning process from first
principles and explains the way it developed up to the introduction of the Resource
Management Act 1991.

SURV 205 provides a clear introduction to the theory and practice of planning,
then an introduction to sustainability, before integrating this knowledge into an
understanding of the Resource Management Act; the administration, institutions, instruments,
purpose and process. SURV 455 follows on directly from this paper to focus on resource
consent applications, requirements and responses and engaging with statutory planning
instruments. Together they provide the theory and practical skills and knowledge required
for the planning activities of surveyors and other land professionals.

Suitable
for all land professionals wanting to understand the RMA planning processes.

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An introduction to statutory planning, the purpose and functions of the Resource Management
Act 1991, including sustainability, local authority planning documents, stakeholder
consultation, notification, effects, examples of assessments of environmental effects
and resource consent applications.

Dealing with the planning system in New Zealand forms a significant part of the practising
surveyor's daily business. The system is evolutionary and sometimes undergoes radical
change, is changed in minor ways at other times and occasionally reintroduces matters
that have been deleted by previous amendments. For this reason it is critical that
students understand the way in which the New Zealand system has developed, the reasons
for changes, what is new and what has been used before. This paper sets in place a
knowledge of the fundamental aspects of the New Zealand planning process from first
principles and explains the way it developed up to the introduction of the Resource
Management Act 1991.

SURV 205 provides a clear introduction to the theory and practice of planning,
then an introduction to sustainability, before integrating this knowledge into an
understanding of the Resource Management Act; the administration, institutions, instruments,
purpose and process. SURV 455 follows on directly from this paper to focus on resource
consent applications, requirements and responses and engaging with statutory planning
instruments. Together they provide the theory and practical skills and knowledge required
for the planning activities of surveyors and other land professionals.

Suitable
for all land professionals wanting to understand the RMA planning processes.